Refused cancel remaining competition gig in Sweden because of frontman struggling a “huge coronary heart assault”
Refused have cancelled their remaining competition efficiency in Sweden because of frontman Dennis Lyxzén affected by “a large coronary heart assault”.
Nevertheless, Lyxzén took to social media to announce their competition look was cancelled. On Instagram, Lyxzén took a photograph of himself in a hospital mattress, explaining he had “a huge coronary heart assault at my resort room” that morning, calling it “extraordinarily painful and wildly scary.”
“Thanks [to] the fantastic medical doctors and nurses on the Uppsala hospital I’m nonetheless round to battle one other day,” he added. “Beneath the circumstances I really feel okay. Sore and drained and actually shook up. I [sic] actual actually hate cancelling present however the physician stated no rock for a few weeks.”
Lyxzén then wrote that because of his coronary heart assault, the Refused present was cancelled, including that it was “a whole bummer as I used to be actually wanting ahead to it. However hopefully I/we will make as much as you quickly.”
He concluded his publish: “The excellent news is that with remedy I can get again to my rocking self hopefully ahead of later. Life is bizarre and treasured. Care for every and inform your family members that you just love them.”
The band’s final launch was their 2020 EP ‘The Malignant Hearth‘. It was their fourth launch since reuniting in 2014, following the albums ‘Freedom’ and ‘Battle Music’, and the EP ‘Servants Of Demise’.
Chatting with NME in 2019, Refused’s frontman mentioned how the band’s politics had modified through the years.
“I believe if you happen to’re static in your political concepts, that’s not an excellent factor,” he stated. “I believe the inspiration, with me, is more-or-less the identical although. We’re nonetheless very anti-capitalist, pro-feminist and the like. Sadly, I believe the concepts we have been speaking about in 1995 are nonetheless fairly related right this moment. I believe what’s modified for me is that I don’t take each battle anymore.
“After I was youthful I used to be, ‘fuck this, fuck that, fuck the whole lot’ and now I’m older, I simply can’t try this. I’m extra targeted in my politics now. Oh, and I dunno, after we have been youthful, being straightedge was crucial to us as a result of consuming was such an integral a part of the tradition we discovered ourselves against. Now we’re older it’s not as necessary to us anymore.”
NME reviewed their album ‘Battle Music’ again in 2019, giving the document 5 stars and calling it “an ideal microcosm of the whole lot good punk ever was – and what it will possibly proceed to be.”
In different information, Refused have been one of many many Swedish artists who’ve known as for Israel to be banned from this 12 months’s Eurovision Music Contest.